Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 93

Orphans signage. The Heartland Fall Forum. And the Joseph G. Peterson.

Friend. Follow. Text. Interview.

It's true. Editor Shawn Syms talks Friend. Follow. Text. with the Trevor Corkum. So please do hit that. It just might change your life. Excerpt? Coolness.

What can readers expect from the anthology?A diverse and eclectic set of stories, each of which reflects upon both the specific and the universal. While I like to think the book has a great flow to it, it is certainly not homogeneous in either form or content. This is a modern, contemporary book reflective of a non-monochromatic world, and as such there is a lot of variety both among the contributors – as just a few examples, there are younger and older storytellers, racialized and non-racialized authors, and writers varied in sexual and gender identities – and across the subjects and themes that they contemplate.

And while the contributors to Friend. Follow. Text. deal with serious and occasionally intense topics  – fertility, sexuality, death, relationship collapse and renewal – their work is leavened with humour as well. In fact, my publisher told me the pieces that made him laugh out loud are the ones that sealed the deal. I hope that readers will be intrigued and moved, and that they may see a bit of themselves in many of the characters in these pages.

I’m extremely proud of the book, and that stems directly from the uniformly high quality of the contributors’ efforts. I can say pretty confidently that I think anyone who picks up this book will find the modest cover price to be money well spent.

We are Banango Street Issue 6 Guest Editor. And most geeked we are.

So please do consider submitting your prose (and poetry, translations, collaborations, and art) by November 15th, and definitely consider sending your cash, gummy fried eggs, books, and T-shirts. The former just may change your life. And the latter will definitely change our lives.

We are Flavorwire Independent Presses. And fine company we are.

Well, technically we are shout-out, and Artistically Declined is Flavorwire, but the company is most definitely fine, and we are most proud of the Artistically Declined.

Citizen J Reads...Virtually? Totally.

For real. Really real. More here. Way more.

The Samantha Irby. Moms. Killing it.

This Book Will Change Your Life - Blood A Cold Blue by James Claffey.

James Claffey is a wizard yo. He is also Blood A Cold Blue. And we are blurb. So do hit it, it just might change your life.

"In Blood a Cold Blue, James Claffey infuses every story with rhythm and rot, doing things with words that I've never seen before and don't expect to again."

MEATY. Irby. B&N. October 4th. Discover Great New Writers. Yo.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Sixty-Nine - Here Comes Your Man, starring the Jeff Phillips.

We are most definitely podcast and Phillips. We are also Votary Nerves, Wood Sugars, store front domiciles, and much, much more. So do hit it, it just might change your life.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. All Sun. And full of Claffey.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. We have new story, The Sun a Lost Sibling by the James Claffey, which we are way excited about, and, (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and debt ceiling prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. Finally, please note, we are hoping more of you will submit comix, and music, novel excerpts, and art, and video, yes, video, and combinations there of. And most finally, James Claffey's debut story collection Blood A Cold Blue is being released by Press 53 on October 1st, so do hit that, it just might change your life.